In Japan, there are two different systems of death investigation: criminal inspection and judicial autopsy from a criminal justice standpoint and, from a public health standpoint, administrative inspection and either administrative or consent autopsy. As a result, it is sometimes unclear which system is responsible for investigating a death. In this study, the Japanese death inquiry system is c...

Institutional reform litigation confronts public administrators with troubling dilemmas, court directives often contradict the duties and responsibilities of public managers. Thus, the argument for judicial intervention is rarely straightforward. The authors argue that federal courts should refuse to hear institutional reform cases not only when federal court intervention would upset a state ad...

For ‘legal constitutionalists’, written constitutions, constitutive of the legal and political system, superior to other legislation, entrenched against change, and enumerating justiciable rights, guarantee equal respect and concern for all citizens. Judicial review is thus an essential support of democracy. In this book, Richard Bellamy offers a robust argument against this view of constitutio...

The principal reform accomplished by Part XX.1 was the creation of a system of forensic Review Boards in each province. The Boards assumed the role previously played by provincial Cabinets in determining the custodial status of forensic patients. Part XX.1 established the Review Boards as quasi-judicial tribunals which would afford all parties, including the accused, a full panoply of procedura...

في ظل جهود دائرة قاضي القضاة تحديث وتطوير التشريعات الناظمة لعمل الدائرة والمحاكم الشرعية بشكلٍ مستمرٍ، جاء تعديل قانون أصول المحاكمات رقم 31 لعام 1959 وتعديلاته حتى عام 2016، والذي احتوى على تعديلات عدة من أهمها إنشاء مكاتب الإصلاح والوساطة والتوفيق الأسري. وحيث إن الأسري هي حديثةُ عهدٍ القضاء الشرعي الأردني، فشكلت أرضاً خصبةً لأحكام المحاكم واجتهاداتها، حيث الفهم، والتطبيق. فجاء هذا البحث لجمع لهذه...